Title :
Stepped Impedance Magnetic Compression Line Pulse Generator
Author :
Kuthi, Andras ; Sanders, Jason M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A novel and improved magnetic compression-based stepped impedance transmission line pulse generator circuit is presented. It is shown that discharging an initially charged lumped element transmission line with saturable inductor switches in each cell can result in complete energy transfer between cells provided the cell capacitances are in a certain fixed sequence independent of the cell inductances. The use of precharge voltage and proper capacitance sequence in such stepped impedance magnetic compression line provides voltage multiplication in addition to pulse compression.
Keywords :
lumped parameter networks; pulse compression; pulse generators; capacitance sequence; initially charged lumped element transmission line; magnetic compression; precharge voltage; pulse compression; saturable inductor switches; stepped impedance transmission line pulse generator circuit; voltage multiplication; Capacitance; Capacitors; Impedance; Inductors; Magnetic circuits; Magnetic cores; Saturation magnetization; Energy transfer; magnetic compression; minimum core volume; voltage multiplication; voltage multiplication.;
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2014.2306196
